Melville : fashioning in modernity /
Matterson, Stephen,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
Introduction: Herman Melville's blue-jean career --1. So unspeakably significant: Melville, Hawthorne and the shawls -- 2. A very strange compound indeed: Carlyle, Redburn and White-Jacket -- 3. He was an European, and had Cloaths on: Typee -- 4. The dress befitted the fate: Israel Potter's Lives -- 5.  These buttons that we wear: Billy Budd.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Clothing and dress in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Civilization, Modern, in literature.